#blacksailsposting

[catilinas]

ough. thinking about black sails. i’m unwell

[itsmonstersurfingtime]

*hurdies your gurdy*

[intertexts]

anyway "doomed by the narrative" as a concept has become more & more diluted with time so i hesitate 2 say it, but there's something really like. indescribably bitter about the overlap & presence of real-history and fiction-history in black sails-- we know new providence did eventually become subjugated under british colonial rule again. we know that flint's ghost haunts treasure island. we know that the 1715 treasure fleet was real & did wreck & we know that silver is going 2 survive & stay til the fucking end & he's going to lose a leg just like randall. like, so many of these dice being thrown-- we know the outcomes already! doesn't make it less painful though!

[posallys]

As both a newfound posally shipper and black sails prisoner enjoyer I wanted to say I appreciate your blacksailsposting 🫡

It seems to me there is a direct correlation between shipping posally and being consumed by black sails

[theartthatleavesthemark]

the conclusion is black sails!!

me: tries not to subject tooks to blacksailsposting

also me: does so anyway

<3

[dilfsisko]

UhhhHHH so vlacklist the tag ‘blacksailsposting’ because I’m gonna be Annoying

[milfygerard]

this is wonderful, i started following you for your mcr posting but now you are rabidly black sails posting, which is my most beloved piece of media and i love seeing more of it on my dash 🫶

omg just found this ask and im thrilled that my blacksailsposting is appreciated <3

[catilinas]

oh YEET im glad you enjoyed it!!! 

my thots atm are actually. quite minimal? ive only read it once (seamus heaney’s the cure at troy is good!), Just For Funsies, and i’ve been to One talk on like imagery of dehumanisation i think. i can guess what takes girard would have! when i try to remember the plot it’s like. odysseys+neoptolemus roadtrip of crime??? but i definitely need to reread it so i can fit it into the in-progress diagram of Are You On An Island? Have You Been Exiled? Do You Have A Fucked Up Leg? complete-theory-of-leg-media. and also the trojan war extended universe bcs like. philoctetes? leg that is so fucked up it makes the scapegoat mechanism happen and exiles you. but odysseus! odysseus also has an ex-fucked up leg! we must not forget this! and That’s what first allows him to be Recognised and get his nostos and reenter society on ithaca and un-scapegoat himself! and achilles has a fucked up foot ig but that’s not in the iliad so i’m being Cautious abt it. 

so yea gotta reread for bl*ck s**ls purposes and ALSO treasure island purposes bcs guess what i got a copy of last week :)) Your Posts Have Power

thots on philoctetes? (so philoctetes has thots now) (crawling all over him like weevils)

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WELL... First of all, I’d also be v interested in your Thots as someone who 1) knows more about these things than me and 2) hasn’t read Treasure Island (I believe? ik you said that at one point).

But, as someone who went into it for the first time Looking for Black Sails, a couple things initially jumped out at me and I was like “Okay...

“Okay I see, I see.

“Right, right, I’m feeling it.”

But then it kept going and going and Going and I was like “holy FUCK, actually” (like. in a good way...). Bc like...

UH-HUH....

Additionally, I really liked the almost-swordfight and also this bit:

Thought those had some Vibes as well.

And, of course, I also just enjoyed it as its own thing separate from Black Sails (if you have a recommended translation, I’d love to know - this is just the first version I found free online but I really liked it) but Yeah!!

I very much appreciate your List and am currently working my way through the others I haven’t read yet. :))

[dykementality]

you wont guess what happened 😔

[officiallanxichen]

black sails is murdering me emotionally. i am mad about a clock. help <3

[micamicster]

guys i cannot handle the level of blacksailsposting i am beset with these days i love you all but i have to wake up every day and be sane and this is making it really difficult!

[catilinas]

obsessed w this typo actually

[bsaka7]

my roommate was like “you only like flint because he beat that guy to death and spends all his time looking broody and bloody.” maybe so. maybe so. maybe watching the winchesters beaten and bloody in various circumstances for most of my early teens impacted me deeply. maybe i just like to see a bloody and determined man. who is to say!

[catilinas]

Alice Oswald, Nobody

[catilinas]

the inherent aeneascoding of being introduced in media res. on a boat.

[catilinas]

the virgin meditations vs the chad violence and the sacred